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Letter: Don’t Stall Economy For Mere Theory

In a recent letter, the tea party was blamed for blocking so called “climate fixes.” Members of the tea party are apparently better informed about global warming than those who just blindly follow the blarney. Very little press coverage on recent Senate testimony. Patrick Moore, Ph.D., the co-founder of Greenpeace, refuted claims that carbon dioxide emissions from human activity are responsible for global warming. Earth’s history shows that between 450 million and 500 million years ago, CO2 levels were 10 times higher than now. Yet the earth went through high temperatures and then an ice age. The fact that an ice age could occur with CO2 emissions 10 times higher than we have today completely refutes any idea that human-caused CO2 emissions are the main cause of global warming.

One year into the Obama administration, the president’s own man on climate change stepped down because the claims could not be substantiated. Also, Phil Jones quit because of an email scandal in the Climate Research Unit. Hackers had broken into their emails and found discussions about how to skew the findings to support the global warming theory. The facts had not supported global warming.

Also, anyone who has taken geology, knows that just one major volcanic eruption puts more CO2 into the atmosphere than three years of man-made emissions. In the early years of our country, the Pilgrims almost didn’t survive because there was a major volcanic eruption on the other side of the world that put so much ash into the atmosphere that it blocked enough of the sun’s rays to prevent the growing of vegetables and crops.

The tea party doesn’t want our country’s economic growth brought to a grinding halt based on an unproven theory especially now that temperatures are in the decline cycle.